Flooding

[fitz19d]

From milliken police FB, I was able to get in this way to top off my saltwater tanks.


There is now one route to get in and out of Milliken. You must take WCR 46.5 (Green Street) west to WCR 19. WCR 19 south to WCR 38. WCR 38 west to WCR 13. WCR 13 south to WCR 34 or WCR 24 west to I-25. The main roads out of town (HWY 60, Hwy 257, and Two Rivers Parkway remain closed at this time and an estimated time for them to be reopened is unknown. In many cases the roads are badly damaged or washed away.


Pretty easy as many of the turns are blocked.

[XC700116]

From milliken police FB, I was able to get in this way to top off my saltwater tanks.


There is now one route to get in and out of Milliken. You must take WCR 46.5 (Green Street) west to WCR 19. WCR 19 south to WCR 38. WCR 38 west to WCR 13. WCR 13 south to WCR 34 or WCR 24 west to I-25. The main roads out of town (HWY 60, Hwy 257, and Two Rivers Parkway remain closed at this time and an estimated time for them to be reopened is unknown. In many cases the roads are badly damaged or washed away.


Pretty easy as many of the turns are blocked.

I couldn't find this on the FB page but decided to give it a shot and it is open. Thanks for the heads up. I think I'm still going to go back to the hotel because work is in a bad place with the washouts and I'll need to be as mobile as possible and they say they're going to close that route if the water starts rising again.

[GilpinGuy]

I had to take the "back way" from my house today because the main road was getting a new culvert installed by the County. The rain washed a giant gully across the road.

I head down the back way (unmaintained road - basically a trail) and suddenly the car stops like a fly hitting fly paper, I see a wave of mud flow in front of me and I feel the car sink. I literally said out load "What the F*** just happened?" It was like driving into a swimming pool. The road was totally saturated, like quicksand, and knee deep.

I had to slog through the crap in my work clothes, hike back home, call in to work to tell them I wouldn't make it, and enlist a few neighbors to help me out.

In short, we got it dug out after 4 hours of slogging around in the muck. My back is killing me and the car is out - undamaged I should add.

Hey, I'm lucky. Many folks are WAY worse off.

[Tinelement]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

[merl]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Did you manage to get everything important off the ground before you had to leave?

[DOC]

That Prius is going to polute the water so bad.
I wonder how soon Gov. Chickenlooper is going to take before he blames Global Warming for this? Or says that we need more gun control to prevent these storms from happening again.
LOL he would too.

[fitz19d]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Do you know if it's clear from I25 straight into town?

[sniper7]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Did the beer survive?

[Irving]

Got into my shop yesterday about 2pm. The shop is about 150 yards from the Big Thompson.
We ended up with 14" of water in the shop.

Good thing you aren't a cardboard fabricator.

[stoner01]

Damn